The first part of this book overviews the physics of lasers and describes some of the more common types of lasers and their applications.
Applications of lasers include CD/DVD players, laser printers and fiber optic communication devices. Part II of this book describes the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation. The experimental techniques used to create a Bose-Einstein condensate provide an interesting and unconventional application of lasers; that is, the cooling and confinement of a dilute gas at very low temperature.
Author(s): Richard A. Dunlap
Series: IOP Concise Physics
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 104
City: Bristol
PRELIMS.pdf
Preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
Richard A Dunlap
CH001.pdf
Chapter 1 The basic physics of lasers
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Optical spectra
1.3 Stimulated emission
1.4 Creating a population inversion
1.5 Laser modes and coherence
1.6 Problems
References and suggestions for further reading
CH002.pdf
Chapter 2 Types of lasers I: conventional lasers
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Solid state lasers
2.3 Second harmonic generation
2.4 Gas lasers
2.5 Dye lasers
References and suggestions for further reading
CH003.pdf
Chapter 3 Types of lasers II: semiconducting lasers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Semiconductor physics
3.3 Semiconducting junctions
3.4 LEDs and semiconductor lasers
3.5 Problems
References and suggestions for further reading
CH004.pdf
Chapter 4 Laser applications
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Communications
4.3 Optical data discs
4.4 Printers
4.4.1 Raster image processing
4.4.2 Charging
4.4.3 Exposing
4.4.4 Developing
4.4.5 Transferring
4.4.6 Fusing
4.4.7 Cleaning
4.5 Industrial applications
4.6 Inertial confinement fusion
References and suggestions for further reading
CH005.pdf
Chapter 5 Fermions and bosons
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Fermions, bosons and the Pauli principle
5.3 Distinguishable and indistinguishable particles and quantum states
5.4 What is a boson and what is not a boson?
5.5 Bose–Einstein condensation
5.6 Problems
References and suggestions for further reading
CH006.pdf
Chapter 6 Cooling techniques
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Cooling techniques: the dilution refrigerator
6.3 Cooling techniques—adiabatic demagnetization
6.4 Laser cooling
6.5 Sisyphus cooling
6.6 Magneto-optic traps
6.7 Forced evaporative cooling
6.8 Problems
References and suggestions for further reading
CH007.pdf
Chapter 7 The Bose–Einstein condensate
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Creating and identifying a Bose–Einstein condensate
7.3 Why is it useful?
7.4 Problems
References and suggestions for further reading
